Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-03
The INTERSTATE BILL.
Full Text of the CusIom- Reagan Con.
ference Rpport-The Provisions.
"Long and Short Haul"
Pooling and Preferential Agreements Pro
hibiied-Pubncityo of Rats g its quirsd.
Remedies 10 shippers.

| the committee, of conference on the disa.
amendment of the house to the bill
| Is 1892 "to regulate commerce." sub
mitted the following conference report:
The committee of conference on the
| dsagreeiDg votes of the two houses on
the am moment of the house to the bill
| IS 10; y "to regulate commerce" having
| met, after full and free conference have
sgreed TO recommend and do recommend
to their respective houses as follows:
That the house recede from its amend
ment and agree to the bill of the senate,
with the following amendment thereto in
the nature of a substitute, and that the
senate agree to the same:
THE sUB-TITUTE BILL.
Strike CUT all after the enacting clause
and insert the following:
That the provisions of this act shall ap-
ply to any common carrier or carriers
engaged in the transportation of psssen-
gers or property wholly by railroad, or
partly by railroad and partly by water,
when both are used, under O common
control, management or arrangement, for
continuous carriage or shipment, from
one state or territory If the United States
or the District of Columbia to any other
state or territory Of the United States or
the District of Columbia, or from any
place in the United States to any adjacent
foreign country, or from any place in the
United States through foreign country
to any other place in the United States
and also 10 the transportation in like
manner of property shipped from any
place in the United States to foreign
country and carried from such place to
a port of trans-shipTent, or shipped from
foreign country to any place in the
United States and carried to such place
from port of entry in the United States
or an adj acent foreign country, provided,
however, that the provisions of this act
shall not apply to the transportation of
passengers or property, or to the receiv-
ing, delivering, storage or handling of
property, wholly within one state, and
not shipped to or from q foreign coun-
try from or to any state or territory as
aforesaid.
The term railroad" as used in this
act shall inclu se ell bridges and ferries
used or operated in connection with any
railroad, and also sll the road in USE by
any corporation operating a railroad
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tract, agreement or lease; and the term
Transportation" shall include all instru
mentali,ies of shipment or carriage.
REASONABLE AND JUST CHARGES
All charges made for any service rem.
dered or to be rendered in the Transport
tation of passengers or property as afore-
said, or in connection herewith, or for
| the receiving, delivering, storage, or
handling OF such property, shall be rea-
sonable and just; aud every unjust and
unreasonable charge for such service is
prohibited and declared to be unlawful.
DISCRIMINATING RATES FORBIDDEN.
Sec = That il any common carrier
subject to the provisions of this act shall,
directly or indir. city, by any special rate.
rebate, drawback or other device, charge,
demand, collect or receive from any per-
son o. persons greater or less cumpen-
sation for any service rendered or to be
rendered in the transportation of passen-
gers or property, subject to the provis-
ions of this act, than itcharges, demands,
collects or receives from eny other per-
son or persons for doing for him or
them like and contemporaneous ser
vice in the transportation of like kind
of trs ffic under substantially similar cir
cumstances and conditions, such COM
mon carrier shall be deemed guilty OF IN
just discrimination, which is hereby pro-
hi5ited and declared to be unlawful.
NO PREFERENCES.
Sec. s That it shall be unlawful for
any common carrier subject to the provi-
sions Of this act, to make OF give any un
due or unreasonable preference or advan-
tage to any particular person, com )any,
finn, corporation, or locality, or any par
ticular description of traffi:, in any re
spect whatsoever, or to subject any par
ticular peIson, company, firm, corpora
ton or lUca ity, or any particular descrip-
ton of tariff, to any undue
or unreasonable prejudice or disad
vantage in any respect whatsoever.
Every common carrier subject to the
provisions Of this act shall, according to
tner respective powers, afford all reason
able, proper, and equal facilities for the
interchange of traffic between their re-
spective lines, and for the receiving, for
warding, and delivering of passengers
and property to and from their several
lines and those connecting herewith, and
And shall not Disseminate in the If rates and
icha-ges between such connecting lines;
but this shall not be construed as re
quiripg any sucn common carrier to give
the use ofdts tracks or terminal facilities
sne, aii6ther carrier engaged in like BUSH
ness.
THE LONG AND sHORr-HAUL CLAUSE.
See 4. That it snail be upla wful for
any Common carrier subject to the proyi-
Siohs OF this act to charge or receive any
greater compensation in the aggregate
3er the transportation Of passengers or Of
like kind OF property, under substantially
simIlar circumstances and conditions, for
q shorter tbsEsFfor longer distance over
the saffte line in the same direction, tie
shorter being included within the longer
distance; but this shall not be construed
as 'thOrzing shy common carrier within
the terms of this act to ch rye and re-
ceiEe as great compensation for shorter
as for a longer distance: Provided, how
ever, that upon application to the COM
mission appointed under the provisions
Of this sY such common carrier may, in
special Gases, after Investigation by the
conmiesion, be authorized 10 charge less
for longer than for shorter distances for
the transportation of passengers or prop
erty; and the commission may from time
to time prescribe the extent to which
such designated common carrier may be
relieved from the operation of this Sec
ton If this act.